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How to Lead Like a Coachby James Elfer and Zsofia Belovai The modern workplace demands a shift in leadership style. We hear it on repeat: The command-and-control model is a thing of the past. Today we need managers Summary. The modern workplace demands that executives move away from a command-and-control style and instead adopt a model based on the idea of the leader as a coach. Companies have devoted extensive resources to this effort, in the form of time-intensive training programs and expensive new technologies, but without great success. In this article, the authors draw on their experiences as behavioral scientists and propose a simpler, cheaper, and more-effective approach: Help leaders identify interactions that they%u2019re already having with their employees and work to transform them into coaching moments.who can ask good questions, facilitate problemsolving, and offer support and guidance to their teams. In short, we need managers committed to a culture of coaching.Turning that vision to reality, however, is proving tricky. Despite devoting significant resources to building coaching capability through devel-